Interests

Books I recommend

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell

The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Ph.D. Grind by Philip J. Guo

The Empire of AI by Karen Hao

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Essays I recommend

The flavor of the bitter lesson for computer vision by Vincent Sitzmann

Principles of Effective Research by Michael Nielsen

From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence by Fei-Fei Li

Making the work you're meant to by starting from nix

All Roads Lead to Robotics by Eric Jang

Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton

Language Models in Plato's Cave by Sergey Levine

How To Do Great Work by Paul Graham

Taking Things Seriously by starting from nix

Cities and Ambition by Paul Graham

You and Your Research by Richard Hamming

Movies I recommend

Train to Busan by Yeon Sang-ho

Dune by Denis Villeneuve

Captain Phillips by Paul Greengrass

Sicario by Denis Villeneuve

Her by Spike Jonze

Whiplash by Damien Chazelle

The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Anthony Minghella

AlphaGo by Greg Kohs

Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan

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